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Clint S
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2015/10/24 11:09:23 (permalink)

fin clips

Are they still clipping fins???  Did they move on to ho's?? I thought it officially stopped in 2010 or 11

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    twobob
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    Re: fin clips 2015/10/24 11:11:08 (permalink)
    Maybe the trailer is back but it has been in Canadia for a while.
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    Lucky13
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    Re: fin clips 2015/10/24 12:26:16 (permalink)
    My understanding is that they are clipping hos now, but the mature fish coming back this year are still clipped.  I heard from someone who had spoken with Fran Verdoliva that there were lots of wild Kings spawning in Beaverdam Brook, so they must have the adipose to distinguish them from stockers.
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    Dave B.
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    Re: fin clips 2015/10/27 00:21:03 (permalink)
    This may help answer the question, from the DEC website...
    "...In 2008, the DEC purchased an automated fish marking trailer (AutoFish) capable of adipose clipping and/or applying coded wire tags (CWTs) to salmon and trout automatically at a high rate of speed and accuracy. From 2008-2011, DEC and the Ontario Ministry of Natural
    Resources and Forestry “mass-marked” all stocked Chinook salmon with an adipose fin clip in Lake Ontario to determine the relative contributions of wild and hatchery stocked Chinook salmon to the fishery. To evaluate the relative performance of pen-reared and traditional, shore-stocked Chinook salmon, DEC marked sub-samples of Chinooks stocked at pen-rearing sites with CWTs in 2010, 2011, and 2013"
    Also regarding wild fish...
    "Percentages of wild Chinook salmon in Lake Ontario varied by year class and age and among regions from 2009-2014, but overall, wild Chinook were an important component of the Lake Ontario fishery averaging 47% of the age 2 and 3 lake harvest.
    Returns of Chinook salmon at the Salmon River Hatchery from the 2008-2010 year classes suggest a high degree of homing by fish stocked at the Salmon River and a low degree of straying from other stocking sites, with estimated average straying rates of 12.4%, 8.4%, and 10.9%, respectively.
     Hope this helps.

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    Re: fin clips 2015/10/27 12:08:47 (permalink)
    Wild kings are here to stay in my hay Penny's worth of an opinion as well as hoe's... I'm really looking forward to seeing the final report on wild steelhead.
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    Re: fin clips 2015/10/27 12:41:26 (permalink)
    Very encouraging. There's something about a wild fish. I'd love to see more of it in our local rivers and creeks in my area. Catching stock fish is like riding a moped everyone does it but no one brags about it. Unless you get a fish that's a few years old then it's something. But anglers keeping 5 20" fish per time out they are too far and between. Not sure what people do with that 3 ounces of meat.
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